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This paper describes a new parallel algorithm to compute the optical flow of a video sequence. A previous sequential algorithm has been distributed over a cluster. It has been implemented in a cluster with 8 nodes connected by means of a Gigabit Ethernet. On this architecture, the algorithm, that computes the optical flow of every image on the sequence, is able of processing 10 images of 720x576 pixels per second.
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Dopico, A.G., Correia, M.V., Santos, J.A., Nunes, L.M. (2004). Distributed Computation of Optical Flow. In: Bubak, M., van Albada, G.D., Sloot, P.M.A., Dongarra, J. (eds) Computational Science - ICCS 2004. ICCS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3037. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24687-9_48
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